Color Range Selection Command
Many of us like to replace backgrounds
in our photos to create fun, fantasy effects. PhotoImpact
8 has a fabulous new Selection menu command, Color Range,
which makes it easier than ever to perform this kind of photo
magic.
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- For this tutorial you'll need my water
lily photo. Right click and save it to your hard drive,
then open it up in the work space. Choose Selection,
Color Range to open the Color Range dialog box.
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- On the left is your original image. On the right
is a representation of your image after a color-based selection
is made. There are two Methods of selecting by color similarity:
Sampled Colors (the default) and Standard (Highlight Midtone
Shadows). Unless you have a very bold, highly contrasting
image, you are most likely to use the Sampled Colors method.
Take a look at the After window, based on the default
values. Most of the water lily is black, which means that
it has not been selected. The white and gray areas have
been selected. So without doing a thing, a good deal of
the background has already been selected. Make sure "Preview"
is selected, then click the Preview button.
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- You'll see a selection marquee around the selected
area in the photo.
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- The selection is pretty clean around the flower,
but there are still parts of the lily pads and water that
need to be selected. Click Continue to return to the Color
Range dialog box.
To select the rest of the background, choose the Eyedropper
button with the plus (+) sign to add to the selection. Note
that you can edit the Similarity value as you click to add
to the selection, but if you make it too high or too low,
it's easy to select too much or too little. Often the default
Similarity is the easiest value to work with.
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